Showing posts with label Sabine Kortels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sabine Kortels. Show all posts

5/8/08

Specificity Required

Let’s try a bit of deductive reasoning to identify this enigma, this mysterious “Allegro,” to which Sabine Kortels of the Denver Posts refers.

Closing the delightful, well-paced program with flair and finesse, Spivakov led the [Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra] in a light, breezy reading of Mozart's brief "Allegro."

Okay, the facts. It's a piece by Mozart. Allegro means fast. It was written for orchestra, presumably without a soloist. It is brief. It is, loosely, “light” and “breezy.”

All we have to do now is find a list of Mozart’s works and start to rule out pieces that don’t fit the facts.

List

(scanning....scanning...)

I wonder if I can include the allegro movements from his symphonies? How ‘bout another list?

List 2

(scanning...scanning...)

Dammit! I give up. Sabine, please just give us the Köchel Number, or some other identifier.
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